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I am looking for recommendations for a version control system (both server and client) for a large and fairly unusual workload.
Workload description:
Obviously, any established version control system will support a wide range of features / platforms. Personally, I'm familiar with Subversion. However, I have little experience using any version control system as applied to very large data volumes and was wondering if some might be better at that than others. The little experience I do have with this suggests that some Subversion clients may perform quite poorly if you try to place very large numbers of files under version control.
Any suggestions / feedback would be appreciated. Dragons flight ( talk) 03:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Dragons flight, if I understand you correctly you are looking for something like the "sparse checkout" functionality that was added in git 1.7. So the functionality appears to be there now, except that you can't check out something like a/b/c/d/e/f/g/what_I_really_want/ as just what_I_really_want/ in your current working directory. Instead, git will create all the parent directories in the repository directory. See here. Hans Adler 06:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
we have a system where we maintain a tracker and 5 users enter their respective date in the same page of excel sheetunfortunately i have a colleague who deletes the date in crucial time (can be a single cell or two) due to which the entire average is skewed , as she is doing this to defame me and hold me responsible from getting away with important task. a colleague have caught her red handed once doing it but could not do much. is there a way i can devise or implement a logging system where the login id would be logged into a file whoever deletes this so that i can prove and can reprimand her without which i am helpless.please help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.122.36.6 ( talk) 10:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, thanks for reading. I'm working (veeeeery early stages) on a project to build a website something like a network of community-based blogs, articles, creative writing etc.
In any case, I am aware that some websites re-produce the content of wikipedia articles on their site (some credit it, some don't). This sort of thing might be useful for the project that I am working on, but I am also very aware that the articles on wikipedia are all 'living' things, insofar as they get updated, expanded etc.
My question (as per the title really): Is it possible to create an i-frame on a page of my site (Say a page about Barking & Dagenham for example) and have the Wikpedia Barking and Dagenham article appear there live? (Does that make sense, I'm still geting to grips with some of the terms and how some of these things work).
Cheers all, Darigan ( talk) 12:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Another option would be to use the printable version of the page in your iframe, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=London_Borough_of_Barking_and_Dagenham&printable=yes This displays the live version of the page while removing the editing interface, and is a lot simpler than delving into mediawiki api. 82.44.55.25 ( talk) 18:11, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
i have a problem with the following java segment,please help me out..
interface internal1{
void internal1(int subject1,int subject2);
}
interface internal2{
void internal2(int subject1,int subject2);
}
class student implements internal1,internal2
{
public void internal1(int subject1,int subject2)
{
system.out.println("subject1="+subject1+ " subject2=" +subject2);
}
public void internal2(int subject1,int subject2)
{
system.out.println("subject1="+subject1+ " subject2=" +subject2);
}
in this student class i want to add another method void sum , which gives the total of subject1 from internal1 and internals2 , and similarly subject2.what should the parameter list in void sum contain? and also please help me define it. Avril6790 ( talk) 13:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
public class Student {
private int score1, score2;
public Student() {
score1 = 0;
score2 = 0;
}
public void setScore1(int input) {
this.score1 = input;
}
public void setScore2(int input) {
this.score2 = input;
}
// If you need fancier math to "compute" modifications to the score1 or score2, make those methods explicit...
public void incrementScore1(int input) {
score1 += input ;
} // ... and so on for more sophisticated calculations
public void printScores( ) {
System.out.println( " Score 1: " + score1 + " Score 2: " + score2 ) ;
}
}
Nimur ( talk) 16:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I am finding a old Mario game for DOS. I often played it in 2000 and 2001.
I can check the reference desk regularly to answer questions about it. I reached the fourth stage and can remember details about the first three stages.
I got the game free, as a email attachment. One special thing I remember about the game is the phrase "back from the death, to rule Frisia again". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kampong Longkang ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I found a game with very similar levels at http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/mario/ except the fourth level is now the sixth level and levels four and five are new to me. The remaining levels are very similar, with a few tiny differences (I dont remember seeing a star in the previous game). But thanks for the help! q —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kampong Longkang ( talk • contribs) 10:32, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I asked a similar question recently, but now I have more details. Does the game described here www.ehow.com/how_2331394_play-othello-online.html use Messenger as a protocol? When I run it in XP, the process it uses is described as "zclientm.exe".
I now often get an error message saying that the server has not responded - I wonder if this is due to me only having version 4 of Messenger, when the latest version is version fourteen. I dislike Messenger and will only update if that is likely to be the reason for the error message. Thanks 92.15.17.139 ( talk) 19:07, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have two related questions, about computers automatically recognising devices. One is about Linux, the other about Windows.
Can anyone help me with either of these problems? JIP | Talk 19:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I bought a computer and it was advertised to have 250 gb of hdd space. However, Windows reports it to have like 232 gb. Why is that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.49.81 ( talk) 20:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Surprisingly, I could not find any article on computer monitor radiation. This, however, was helpful in answering my question of whether it was a myth that it is harmful, but I'm still wondering about older computer monitors, CRTs specifically, before standards such as MPR II and III (could not find any article on these either) or any other standards, could there in fact have been enough radiation emitted from these monitors to be not just harmful, but lethal given enough exposure? Is it even plausible, under extreme circumstances, for computer monitor radiation to be deadly? I mean just the fact that these 'Low Radiation Emission' standards do exist means that there was indeed enough harmful radiation emitted from these older monitors that it actually warranted putting these standards in place, so I'm wondering just how much radiation was reduced? by what percent? How much safer are we now? (i mean those that still use CRTs of course, which is rare these days ;) -- œ ™ 22:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
How much traffic does http://example.com receive daily? 82.44.55.25 ( talk) 23:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
I am looking for recommendations for a version control system (both server and client) for a large and fairly unusual workload.
Workload description:
Obviously, any established version control system will support a wide range of features / platforms. Personally, I'm familiar with Subversion. However, I have little experience using any version control system as applied to very large data volumes and was wondering if some might be better at that than others. The little experience I do have with this suggests that some Subversion clients may perform quite poorly if you try to place very large numbers of files under version control.
Any suggestions / feedback would be appreciated. Dragons flight ( talk) 03:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Dragons flight, if I understand you correctly you are looking for something like the "sparse checkout" functionality that was added in git 1.7. So the functionality appears to be there now, except that you can't check out something like a/b/c/d/e/f/g/what_I_really_want/ as just what_I_really_want/ in your current working directory. Instead, git will create all the parent directories in the repository directory. See here. Hans Adler 06:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
we have a system where we maintain a tracker and 5 users enter their respective date in the same page of excel sheetunfortunately i have a colleague who deletes the date in crucial time (can be a single cell or two) due to which the entire average is skewed , as she is doing this to defame me and hold me responsible from getting away with important task. a colleague have caught her red handed once doing it but could not do much. is there a way i can devise or implement a logging system where the login id would be logged into a file whoever deletes this so that i can prove and can reprimand her without which i am helpless.please help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.122.36.6 ( talk) 10:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello all, thanks for reading. I'm working (veeeeery early stages) on a project to build a website something like a network of community-based blogs, articles, creative writing etc.
In any case, I am aware that some websites re-produce the content of wikipedia articles on their site (some credit it, some don't). This sort of thing might be useful for the project that I am working on, but I am also very aware that the articles on wikipedia are all 'living' things, insofar as they get updated, expanded etc.
My question (as per the title really): Is it possible to create an i-frame on a page of my site (Say a page about Barking & Dagenham for example) and have the Wikpedia Barking and Dagenham article appear there live? (Does that make sense, I'm still geting to grips with some of the terms and how some of these things work).
Cheers all, Darigan ( talk) 12:58, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Another option would be to use the printable version of the page in your iframe, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=London_Borough_of_Barking_and_Dagenham&printable=yes This displays the live version of the page while removing the editing interface, and is a lot simpler than delving into mediawiki api. 82.44.55.25 ( talk) 18:11, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
i have a problem with the following java segment,please help me out..
interface internal1{
void internal1(int subject1,int subject2);
}
interface internal2{
void internal2(int subject1,int subject2);
}
class student implements internal1,internal2
{
public void internal1(int subject1,int subject2)
{
system.out.println("subject1="+subject1+ " subject2=" +subject2);
}
public void internal2(int subject1,int subject2)
{
system.out.println("subject1="+subject1+ " subject2=" +subject2);
}
in this student class i want to add another method void sum , which gives the total of subject1 from internal1 and internals2 , and similarly subject2.what should the parameter list in void sum contain? and also please help me define it. Avril6790 ( talk) 13:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
public class Student {
private int score1, score2;
public Student() {
score1 = 0;
score2 = 0;
}
public void setScore1(int input) {
this.score1 = input;
}
public void setScore2(int input) {
this.score2 = input;
}
// If you need fancier math to "compute" modifications to the score1 or score2, make those methods explicit...
public void incrementScore1(int input) {
score1 += input ;
} // ... and so on for more sophisticated calculations
public void printScores( ) {
System.out.println( " Score 1: " + score1 + " Score 2: " + score2 ) ;
}
}
Nimur ( talk) 16:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I am finding a old Mario game for DOS. I often played it in 2000 and 2001.
I can check the reference desk regularly to answer questions about it. I reached the fourth stage and can remember details about the first three stages.
I got the game free, as a email attachment. One special thing I remember about the game is the phrase "back from the death, to rule Frisia again". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kampong Longkang ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I found a game with very similar levels at http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/mario/ except the fourth level is now the sixth level and levels four and five are new to me. The remaining levels are very similar, with a few tiny differences (I dont remember seeing a star in the previous game). But thanks for the help! q —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kampong Longkang ( talk • contribs) 10:32, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I asked a similar question recently, but now I have more details. Does the game described here www.ehow.com/how_2331394_play-othello-online.html use Messenger as a protocol? When I run it in XP, the process it uses is described as "zclientm.exe".
I now often get an error message saying that the server has not responded - I wonder if this is due to me only having version 4 of Messenger, when the latest version is version fourteen. I dislike Messenger and will only update if that is likely to be the reason for the error message. Thanks 92.15.17.139 ( talk) 19:07, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I have two related questions, about computers automatically recognising devices. One is about Linux, the other about Windows.
Can anyone help me with either of these problems? JIP | Talk 19:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
I bought a computer and it was advertised to have 250 gb of hdd space. However, Windows reports it to have like 232 gb. Why is that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.49.81 ( talk) 20:38, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Surprisingly, I could not find any article on computer monitor radiation. This, however, was helpful in answering my question of whether it was a myth that it is harmful, but I'm still wondering about older computer monitors, CRTs specifically, before standards such as MPR II and III (could not find any article on these either) or any other standards, could there in fact have been enough radiation emitted from these monitors to be not just harmful, but lethal given enough exposure? Is it even plausible, under extreme circumstances, for computer monitor radiation to be deadly? I mean just the fact that these 'Low Radiation Emission' standards do exist means that there was indeed enough harmful radiation emitted from these older monitors that it actually warranted putting these standards in place, so I'm wondering just how much radiation was reduced? by what percent? How much safer are we now? (i mean those that still use CRTs of course, which is rare these days ;) -- œ ™ 22:05, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
How much traffic does http://example.com receive daily? 82.44.55.25 ( talk) 23:53, 9 October 2010 (UTC)